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I think we've made a huge mistake in our notions of "experts", especially the blind assumption that we need experts to tell us something on every arbitrary issue. On all the recent…

^ *not* in the Top 15 that year. Gun violence as a cause of death.

Social psychologist here. There's a profound lack of cognitive activity in American journalists, and what I'd call legacy leftist media especially. I don't think we can explain wha…

It will be a chunk. It accounts for a lot of income variance in existing research, like Chetty's at Harvard. He and his colleagues seemed to bury the effect though in at least one …

Interesting choice. They desperately need a new sled. When she's not misdelivering my packages to other people, I feel terrible for my USPS mail carrier during the summer months. T…

Are you taking about the word "Defense" in Oshkosh Defense? Yeah, this isn't a military vehicle. It's a van, not some sort of modified Humvee or anything. Oshkosh makes lots of veh…

As a brown person and hopefully a champion of reason, I would like to encourage you white folks to be a bit less obedient and compliant with this madness. It is long past time that…

You're assuming racism is the cause of the gaps. Big assumption. Out of wedlock births alone will explain a gap of that size: more than 70% of black American children are born out …

I don't see much nuance or texture there. I think this work is a scratch, has no epistemic standing, meaning, or utility. Modern academic methods are incredibly sloppy and non-rigo…

Social psychologist here. The article doesn't back the headline. They never mention the effect size, how much parental finances matter. The mention that smarts "explain 11% of the …

I agree. In fact, I'm not aware of any context or venue where leftists have supported freedom of speech (for non-leftists). They're failing every test. Campuses, disinviting speake…

I think gains in I/O will be more noticeable than gains in their CPUs. SSDs are being choked and held back by PCIe 3.0 interfaces at this point. I'm not sure that PCIe 4.0 is any b…

Anyone know what happened to Intel over the past 5+ years? They used to be unstoppable, relentless, the best. Have they had trouble recruiting the best engineers? How have TSMC and…

I'm the author of that Medium article. The "second one" you referred to isn't the second bug I reported – it's just an aside on Wired's crazy headline font. They've since replaced …

Faster still would be to skip the request for the CSS altogether by inlining it in the head. Therefore you'd just request the font immediately and directly. This makes the preconne…

Nice. I love Mini Discs, and especially Mini DVDs. They're great for archival storage. I would just keep them, not migrate to something else.

The potential red flag in this account was Jared interrupting the interviewer who was asking a question that mentioned microservices to say that he had no experience in microservic…

The reason governments waste time on recycling, or fail to authorize landfills, or orchestrate the export of trash to other countries is because environmentalists exist and are ver…

Interesting read. It always surprises me that companies go many years running major apps and infrastructure with interpreter-based languages like Python and Ruby to begin with. It'…

Why is WeWork considered a tech company? And what exactly is wrong with their business model? That's not clear to me from the article. It says they take long-term leases and sell s…

What is the article referring to when it cites an "increase in climate change" and says that it's been more aggressive than predicted?

I like it. What would also be cool is another Go compiler and linker, developed by a different team not at Google. It would be good for the ecosystem and performance if there was m…

The Teams client is built on Electron? Why? Developers need to stop building slow applications. This is ridiculous. It's 2019 and software is slower than it was in the 90s. It must…

Anyone know what it's made out of, the specific materials?

1. Yes, many millions of people are still buying cars. Some of us love cars. Real men drive, and drive well – they don't ride bikes or trolleys to work. Driving is an essential ele…